Earthquake in Italy levels town, raising questions of preventability and preparedness On Wednesday, August 26, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck in the early morning hours, near the village of Amatrice, located…
GRI Report – The South Carolina Deluge: Lessons from a Watershed Disaster In October 2015, South Carolina experienced record breaking rainfall totals for nearly five straight days. As the rainfall intensified, many…
Explosions in New York and New Jersey Lead to Manhunt and Arrest of Suspected Bomber Three devices exploded and five others were discovered over the weekend in a string of apparently connected attacks in New…
Hoboken Commuter Rail Train Crash On 29 September 2016 at 8:45am, New Jersey Transit (NJT) commuter train No. 1614 traveling from Spring Valley, NY to…
Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016 In 2014, Congress passed the first Water Resources Reform and Development Act in seven years, with a commitment to pass…
LAX Brought to Crawl Following “Active Shooter” False Alarm In an episode eerily reminiscent of the panic that gripped JFK Airport only two weeks before, Los Angeles International Airport…
Hanjin Collapse Inundates Southern California with Containers; Fails to Revive Shipping Rates Hanjin Shipping, the world’s seventh largest container carrier and the largest in South Korea, filed for bankruptcy and receivership in…
Haiti Grapples with Devastating Toll from Matthew While the United States continues to reel from Hurricane Matthew, Haiti finds itself at the beginning of a lengthy and…
Floods Inundate North Carolina Following Matthew While Hurricane Matthew has already passed, North Carolina flood waters are expected to continue to rise as rain flows into…
Assessments Begin to Surface as NC Remains Under Water The first official assessments of North Carolina’s losses in the wake of Hurricane Matthew were released on Monday, October 17,…
Cyber Attack Brings Down Popular Websites, Brings Up Concerns around Internet-connected Devices On October 21, 2016, access to a wide array of popular websites was disrupted several times throughout the day by…
GRI team working with government & industry in drafting Nonproliferation Policy recommendations Following an October 2016 trip to meet with public and private sector officials in London, Brussels, Vienna, and The Hague,…
